AP
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — The bail hearing was postponed Monday for a Native American former “Dances With Wolves” actor who is accused of sexually abusing and trafficking Indigenous girls.
The delay until Wednesday to allow Nathan Chasing Horse, 46, to change lawyers was announced in a North Las Vegas courtroom full of his friends and relatives who had hoped to see him released on bail.
Chasing Horse, who also uses the name Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse, played the role of young Sioux tribe member Smiles a Lot in Kevin Costner’s 1990 Oscar-winning film.
Since then, Chasing Horse built a reputation among tribes across the United States and in Canada as a “medicine man” who performs healing ceremonies.
He was the focus of a monthslong investigation into allegations of sex trafficking, sexual assault and child abuse before he was arrested Jan. 31 near the North Las Vegas home that he shares with several wives. He has not been formally charged in the case.
He was banished from the Fort Peck Reservation in Poplar, Montana, nearly a decade ago following similar allegations.
Chasing Horse appeared briefly in court last Thursday, but did not speak as his public defenders invoked his right to a detention hearing. Nevada law requires prosecutors to present convincing evidence that a defendant should remain in custody.
